During his homily at Casa Santa Marta, Pope Francis said the Lord always consoles through His closeness, truth and hope.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> Pope Francis explained that God's consolation is sincere, not deceptive nor an anesthetic. He said, \u201cHis consolation is nearness, He is truth and He opens the doors of hope.\u201d<\/p>\n Daniel D\u00edaz Vizzi<\/p>\n Translation: Claudia Torres<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May 8, 2020. Pope Francis remembered that God's consolation is real, not deceptive nor an anesthetic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lNXHzU05zTg","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta0805eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta0805int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHe is always there. That closeness is God's style, even in the Incarnation, drawing closer to us. The Lord consoles through nearness. He doesn't use empty words. Instead, He prefers silence, the strength of closeness, of presence. He speaks little, but He is near.<\/em><\/p>\n